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Millionaires, Millennials And The Great Avocado Debate

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Are millennials eating too many avocados on toast for their own good? The crux of the debate is this: are first- time home sales down because, given the choice of a two car garage and a yard in the suburbs, millennials have, en masse, decided they’d rather enjoy a more richly-delicious brunch experience, week in and week out?

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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach

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On the slightly more serious side of the payments news this week, BJ’s Wholesale Club looks like it’s going up for sale — and the rumor of the week is that Amazon is thinking about buying it. The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. IHG’s Big Hack.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact.

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Amex Targets Gig Economy Workers With New SMB Card

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American Express has rolled out a new small business credit card as part of an ongoing effort for the company to step back from its reputation as an elite-only credit card company. American Express OPEN said Thursday (May 25) that it has launched the Blue Business Plus Credit Card developed for entrepreneurs.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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Cards And The Platform, Beyond Corporate Payroll

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The environment for the adoption of prepaid cards in a payroll setting is a mixed one. Loading salaries onto cards and giving those cards to employees can cut down on the costs of working with manually creating and printing (and sometimes mailing) checks.

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Tough Times in Consumer Credit Could Push Some Americans to Nontraditional Lenders

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billion hit in April, with revolving debts like credit cards taking the hardest hit — falling by a steep 64.9 In some cases, credit-card holders increasingly complain about banks slashing their credit limits or canceling their cards involuntarily. According to the latest Federal Reserve data , U.S. consumer borrowing dropped 19.6

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